[IxDA Discuss] more new desktop IxD

[pauric]

"Not your ordinary desktop."

I'm sure thats a slip, but its not a 'desktop' interface.  Its a focused ACD
design.  Do one thing and do it well - so barring any glaring
design-by-committee no-no's it should be more user friendly than a tub of
ben and jerrys.

However, read somewhere today that some countries, who are rightly concerned
about theft-blackmarket, have got the design changed so it will disable
itself in some circumstances.  Firstly the device must be registered over
the net within a period, then if reported stolen it gets disabled from a
central server.

While this is all well and good it falls in to design flaw of not trusting
the user, you're guilty until you prove yourself innocent.  And, with a lot
of the target countries having less than stellar access to the net I think
there are going to be a lot of peeved kiddies with green/white bricks.
Also, I have to question the possible disconnect between the bureaucrats who
requested this feature and the capabilities of these countries to manually
administer lists of stolen serial numbers and then broadcast licensing
flags.

fwiw there are no current plans to sell this in western markets.